The child seemed unresponsive. He did not put bis arms around his mother, and he seemed to just be sitting passively as she hugged him and wept. The damage to these children is just horrific. My heart bleeds.

Seven is plenty old enough to understand what's happening. I did when I was younger than him in institutional hands. He knew he'd been taken away by people who were uncaring and doing wrong but was not in actual danger. Now he knew he was back with his overjoyed mother among sympathetic interviewers. He was comfortable standing a bit apart from her, then moving closer, obviously not afraid, nodded yes to a question.

Children's emotional resilience varies just as that of adults does, but my guess is this one'll be okay. His mother is obviously functioning well, and he's her son.

Poor kid was probably dosed so he'd behave on the flight.

My one experience of taking a heavy antidepressant in college as suggested by a friend was exactly like that kid looked. I understood events that were happening but experienced no positive or negative emotional responses to them.

If it's so important to separate them from parents, why not just do it in the same building or even the same city?

Just objects that can be moved for convenience.

children with their parents.